A Training Approach for the Transition of Repeatable Collaboration Processes to Practitioners

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 347-371

  Kolfschoten, Gwendolyn L ^a   de Vreede, Gert Jan ^a,b   Pietron, Leah R ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive load theory; Collaboration engineering; Facilitation; GSS; Training; Transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957502861     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-010-9208-4     Document Type: Article

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